Deputy Head Director of Pastoral Care (Director de Alumnos)

ABOUT THE SCHOOL

Our school is seeking to appoint a Director de Alumnos (Deputy Head Director of Pastoral Care) to lead the Pastoral Curriculum, manage the daily School Organization and join the School Board of directors .

We are looking for an outstanding school manager and teacher, with experience ideally both in teaching, pastoral leadership and management.

We are a private ownership school, secular and mixed and licensed by the Spanish Ministry of Education, thus our “official” curriculum and the one we are inspected on is the Spanish Model.

Our vocation is that of an English International School so we run a personalized curriculum, International Curriculum, running side by side to the Spanish one. The International Curriculum we run, still under development, aims to increase our exposure to cultural diversity, a more hands on approach and variety of curriculum, mainly based on the English National Curriculum. At a minimum it should develop English as a Lingua Franca and never as a second language.

Our Spanish curriculum is the core needed by our students to prepare for Spanish University, all of our students go on to Spanish university, concentrating on the results needed by the Spanish Selectividad exam.

Due to our Families been mainly Spanish the post is for a fluent Spanish or close to fluent Spanish speaker, with an understanding of the Spanish southern idiosyncrasies.

The successful candidate will be a member of the Senior Leadership Team and play an active part in leading the future development of the School.

ABOUT THE ROLE- MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES (EXECUTIVE SUMMARY)

1. Pastoral Care and organization

• To correctly lead the pastoral curriculum. If not Spanish must understand Spanish cultural family aspects to achieve family satisfaction, and have knowledge about Andalusian idiosyncrasies.
• Manage the daily School Organization and pastoral care, working with the Subdirectors and Tutors
• Implement School discipline policies setting clear expectations letting students know what is expected of them and following through with disciplinary actions when needed. Manage Subdirector on all disciplinary and behavioral aspects of students.
• Maintain and develop pastoral curriculum
• Interpretation and use of data to inform pupil progress.
• Lead all school events.
• Lead, support and promote all established systems, traditions at the present time: Head Boy & Head Girl, School Council (Prefect System), Assemblies, Mascots, Houses, etc.
• Advising
• Families. Attend, guide… active involvement.
• Human Resources
• Lead Staff
• Develop with the board and HR responsible a yearly plan for continuous development and evaluation of staff
• Ensure good staff morale within all staff.
• Promote active participation of the whole school community
• Aid and understand cultural problems of foreign staff for a full integration within the school

2. Other duties

• To teach a minimum of between 6 and 12 contact hours
• Co-responsible with the Pedagogical Director for spanish inspection or any other future inspection schemes.
• Maintain, promote and look after School quality and EFQM systems.
• Admission of new students. Interview families and support the admission process
• Compose and publish articles for educational publications and for our in-house publications.
• Promote and maintain connections with appropriate official bodies eg.- ACADE, CICAE, NABSS, ECIS, Cambridge, Comenius, British Council.
• Support and promote any innovative novelties particularly English based.
• Set yearly objectives for growth and improvement.

QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE:

Candidates must believe and be passionate about education and child development and be willing to put in the time and effort to develop and put in place an ambitious and effective pastoral scheme. One that not only delivers effective supervision and support of discipline and academic results but also provides a framework for personal development.

Good knowledge of the students and families is necessary so an important part of the role is to develop a close relationship with them.

In order to guarantee future success and continued development good organization and structured proposals are required.

• Master’s degree preferably in arts. PGCE or similar for education. Some management training is preferable.
• Total comprehension of the Spanish Curriculum at all levels
• Total comprehension of the National Curriculum at all levels and have knowledge of other International curriculums, including the I.B. in order to meet the mission vision of the School.
• Knowledge of quality procedures and EFQM
• Should be robust and enthusiastic.
• Requires loyalty, high levels of discretion, tact, firmness and professional judgement.
• Age: Experience, personality and maturity needed to undertake the post.
• First class interpersonal skills, with ability to manage in a motivational and fair way which encourages staff to maintain high levels of performance and realistic diplomatic and public relations dexterities.
• Very high level of oral and written skills including persuasion, negotiation and advocacy, in English and Spanish
• Excellent public speaker.
• High energy levels and a responsible and mature outlook on life and work.
• Totally computer literate with up to date skills as a proficient user.
• Excellent social background, experience and preparation becoming a role model for the whole school community.
• Personal membership to educational organizations is looked on favorably.
• Experience in participating and representing schools in international organizations with appropriate contact network.

Candidates should send, in both English and Spanish, full c.v., a cover letter, a Statement of Intent and a short description of your philosophy on Modern Education to rrhh@aonia.es

Closing dates for applications: 15th September 2017

Initial Interviews: Provisionally w/c 18th September 2017 (Via Video Conference / Skype)